It’s raining and awesome in the upper Midwest today and I’m loving it. Oatmeal for breakfast, piping hot coffee sitting keyboard side, wind howling the beautiful fall leaves by my window…I hope the colors last in the trees for a couple more weeks, but it’s gotta be said…I’ll take the rain! I’ll also take this little curly-headed cutie in a…
As a kid, I was a little short. Not like I couldn’t go on most of the rides at Valleyfair kind of short, but more of your average-Joe, vertically-challenged variety. Which wasn’t really that big of a deal to me until it was time to go to Middle School. A whole huge new school of two buildings and a virtual…
I’ve used this poem before in a baby post, years ago, but it somehow seemed to just ring right with me this morning again. *** Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,— Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. “Where are you going, and what do you wish?†The old…
I love weekends. Getting together with friends, unplugging for more than a few hours at a time, getting a little pocket adventure in…oh, they most certainly are the cream of the crop. This past weekend the fellow and I hung out at Sno Baron’s Haydays while our good friend was hawking his wares at a booth on the grounds. In…
Oh, this weekend was a goodie. I got to hang with my nieces and nephew at the pool Friday {is it just me or are pools way cooler than they were when we were kids *cough* just a few years ago?}. I got myself back in the kitchen to whip up some peach bbq sauce {holy NUM}, freeze some corn…